From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: \225 and so on Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 17:37:48 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049733406 2076 80.91.224.249 (7 Apr 2003 16:36:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 16:36:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 07 18:36:44 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 192Zbv-0000R1-00 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 18:36:43 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 192ZfW-0002Eg-00 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 18:40:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 192Za0-0002Hv-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 12:34:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 192ZVW-0000o1-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 12:30:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 192YwQ-0005D9-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:53:51 -0400 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193] helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 192Ygx-00071Z-00; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 11:37:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C44FE14504; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 17:37:50 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org X-Yow: .. I want to perform cranial activities with Tuesday Weld!! In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 04 Apr 2003 17:24:12 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Original-cc: handa@etl.go.jp X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12964 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12964 Richard Stallman writes: |> I often get files that are basically plain ASCII but have a few of |> Microsoft's special characters such as \222 and \225. Emacs does not |> seem to cope with these files very well. One time recently it |> suggested iso-8859-15 iso-8859-14 utf-8 mule-utf-16-be mule-utf-16-le. |> |> Can you please work on more natural handling for these characters? What would you consider natural? When I tried to edit such a file it was read in as raw-text and saved back without any questions. It probably depends on the language environment, though (I'm using "German"). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."